Anonymous ID: 6ee8a9 May 5, 2022, 7:30 p.m. No.16219025   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Trump Suggested Striking Mexican Drug Labs With Missiles – Report

 

Former President Donald Trump dismissed his Secretary of Defense Mark Esper in November 2020 shortly after the presidential election. Esper's memoirs ‘A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times’ is scheduled to be released on May 10.

The former Pentagon chief said in his book that Donald Trump asked him about the possibility of launching missiles on Mexican territory to “destroy the drug labs,” according to The New York Times.

The former president was said to be concerned with the continuing drug trafficking into the country.

 

“They don’t have control of their own country,” Trump said, according to Esper’s book.

Responding to the defense secretary’s objections, ex-POTUS reportedly insisted that “we could just shoot some Patriot missiles and take out the labs, quietly,” adding that “no one would know it was us.” The former president, according to Esper, suggested denying any possible accusations related to the attacks.

The former defense secretary wrote that he would have thought it was a joke had he not been staring Mr. Trump in the face, according to the New York Times.

Esper said Trump “seemed more emboldened, and more erratic, after he was acquitted in his first impeachment trial” and he “tried to tighten his grip on the executive branch with demands of personal loyalty.”

Esper also wrote in his new book that Trump spoke about the idea of opening fire on protesters who took to the streets around the White House following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, proposing to deploy 10,000 active-duty troops.

 

“Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?” Trump reportedly asked.

The former defense secretary states that he never believed Trump's decisions merited invoking the 25th Amendment, but says the former president was “someone not in control of his emotions or his thought process throughout 2020.”

Earlier, Esper accused Pentagon officials of unreasonably banning much of his upcoming memoir from his “turbulent tenure” under U.S. President Donald Trump. He filed a lawsuit last year against the Defense Department, demanding the withheld extracts be published, as they are “crucial to telling important stories discussed in the manuscript.”

 

https://sputniknews.com/20220506/trump-suggested-striking-mexican-drug-labs-with-missiles–report-1095300286.html

Anonymous ID: 6ee8a9 May 5, 2022, 7:33 p.m. No.16219037   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9199 >>9257 >>9483 >>9590

Boston school board votes to shut down grade school after a decade of claims of sexual abuse and bullying

 

The Boston school committee voted to permanently shut down a grade school over a decade of complaints of sexual abuse and bullying.

 

The committee voted 5-0 with one abstention on Thursday.

 

“I believe this decision, as painful as it is, puts our district on a path toward healing,” said school committee chair Jeri Robinson to the Boston Herald.

 

“The safety, health and well-being of our students must remain our top priority," she added. "We have a lot of work to do to rebuild trust with our families, and together, we can emerge from this a stronger district.”

 

Students as young as 5 years old were allegedly victims of bullying and sexual assault by other students at the Mission Hill K-8 School in Jamaica Plain.

 

A recently released 189-page report by investigators who found disturbing incidents of the abuse at the failed school.

 

In one case, a student was repeatedly sexually abused by other students in a one-person bathroom, but when officials were alerted about the incident, they did not report it as required by law. Instead, staff initially recommended that bells be placed on the bathroom door or that adults accompany the student victim.

 

The report said that the actions of the staff led to “troubling patterns of unsafe sexual behavior, bullying and physical violence to continue unabated."

 

The report also found that staff members who tried to report the abuse faced retaliation by administrators.

 

While some parents fought to keep the school open, others supported the closure and said that officials were unresponsive to their demands.

 

One education activist accused the school superintendent of allowing the abuse to continue even as the investigation was being undertaken by Boston law firm Hinckley Allen.

 

“As mandated reporters of suspected child abuse and neglect, she and her administration should immediately have intervened,” said Edith Bazile, founder and executive director of Black Advocates for Educational Excellence.

 

https://www.theblaze.com/news/boston-school-sexual-assault-bullying

Anonymous ID: 6ee8a9 May 5, 2022, 7:35 p.m. No.16219051   🗄️.is 🔗kun

The change that refreshes: independents ring the changes in quest to renew Australian democracy

 

The polls point to the LNP losing their grip on power, but don’t count on a Labor landslide. The big winners may well be found outside the traditional domain of party politics. Kim Wingerei with Cathy McGowan on the independents.

 

At the 2019 election, the polls predicted a Labor victory. It became one of the biggest upsets in Australian political history. The Liberal National Party coalition fared poorly in NSW and Victoria but rode a wave of anti-Labor fervour in the resources states of Queensland and Western Australia to increase its tiny majority of one seat to three in the lower house (later reduced back to one as Craig Kelly left the Liberal Party in 2021).

 

There is even less reason to trust the polls this time. As Cathy McGowan, former Independent representative for the Victorian electorate of Indi, points out to MWM:

 

The polls don’t reflect the much greater diversity of candidates in many electorates, nor do they reflect voter disaffection with the major parties.

 

A recent local poll by the Australian Institute in the Victorian electorate of Goldstein indicates that independent Zoe Daniels trails incumbent Tim Wilson (Lib) by 1% on first preferences, but leads by 24% on a two-candidate preferred basis. Wilson held Goldstein by a comfortable 7.8% after preferences in 2019.

 

These are the kinds of potential swings that are not being picked up by the national polling of Roy Morgan and others.

 

Various polls have indicated strong showings for Sophie Scamps in Mackellar (NSW) and Kylea Tink in North Sydney. On another yardstick, SportsBet has made independent candidate Allegra Spender the favourite to beat Liberal MP in Wentworth (NSW).

 

Two electorates up the road from Goldstein, federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, who held Kooyong despite a big swing against him in 2019, is also clearly not feeling comfortable facing up to independent Monique Ryan. Throwing the alleged voting intentions of Ryan’s mother-in-law into his campaign launch speech seems more like desperation than the usual Liberal Party safe-seat hubris.

 

Kooyong has never been held by any party but the Liberal Party and its forebears. It was Robert Menzies’ seat for 32 years, followed by Andrew Peacock for 28. Losing Kooyong will be a massive symbolic blow for the Liberal Party.

 

Neither Dr Monique Ryan, nor journalist Zoe Daniel are politicians, and therein lies much of their attraction to voters, says McGowan. “They connect with voters in the electorates in ways that the major party generally does not, listening to their constituents rather than candidates who just spruik the party line on the policy issues they think are important.”

 

McGowan has championed the “Voices Of” movement which has helped the dozens of independent candidates standing at this election. Her grassroots campaign won her the formerly safe Liberal seat of Indi, then held by Sophie Mirabella, in the 2013 election.

 

https://michaelwest.com.au/will-the-polls-be-wrong-again-no-labor-landslide-independents-on-the-march/

Anonymous ID: 6ee8a9 May 5, 2022, 7:40 p.m. No.16219070   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9169 >>9199 >>9257 >>9483 >>9590

Republican Clerk in Colorado Hands Over Copies of Hard Drives After Attempting to Protect Evidence Soros-Backed Secretary of State Tried to Delete

 

A Republican Clerk in Colorado handed over hard drives to authorities after capturing the drives when the corrupt Secretary of State (Jena Griswold – above) attempted to illegally delete information from the machines.

 

Reuters reported in a slanted article protecting the corrupt Colorado Secretary of State (see highlighted text):

 

A Republican county clerk, accused by Colorado authorities of breaching election data with activists who back former President Donald Trump’s stolen election falsehoods, handed over the copied information on Wednesday after a court order.

 

Elbert County Clerk Dallas Schroeder last year made copies of the county’s voting system, stating in legal filings that he believed he had a “statutory duty” to preserve records of the 2020 election.

 

The incident is among eight attempts to gain unauthorized access to voting systems in five U.S. states since the 2020 election, according to a Reuters examination of the incidents published last week. All involved local Republican officeholders or party activists advancing Trump’s falsehoods or conspiracy theories about rigged voting machines, the analysis found.

 

Schroeder said the hard drives with the data were not a “voting system component” and that he was authorized to make the copies, according to the judge’s order. Elbert County District Court Judge Gary Kramer rejected those arguments and ordered him to hand over the hard drives to Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold by Wednesday afternoon.

 

(Note that it’s really outrageous that nearly every article by the far-left about the 2020 Election claims that the 2020 Election was not stolen despite ample evidence to decertify the election. 2000 Mules came out this week and a former Supreme Court Judge in Wisconsin has called for decertification of the election there. Evidence from that Arizona audit was more than enough to overturn the election there and Georgia as well has hundreds of thousands of ballot issues that have been left unresolved.

 

The media’s efforts in covering up the 2020 Election steal are as bad as their efforts to cover up Hunter Biden’s laptop from hell. The media also reported for four years that President Trump was Putin’s puppet and yet we now know this too is false.

 

Finally, the clerk didn’t take hard drives, the clerk made copies of the machines before they were damaged by the corrupt Secretary of State’s order.)

 

Judge Kramer was appointed as a District Court Judge in the 18th Judicial District in January 2016 by Democrat Governor Hickenlooper.

 

What the clerk did was an attempt to preserve evidence as is required per federal law. Griswold did what other Democrat Secretary’s of State did and mandated that the local election teams perform a type of maintenance on the voting machines in the state, but this activity would also erase all information on the machines related to the 2020 Election.

 

Griswold is being sued for her actions related to the 2020 Election.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/republican-clerk-colorado-hands-copies-hard-drives-attempting-protect-evidence-soros-backed-secretary-state-tried-delete/

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/republican-clerk-colorado-hands-copies-hard-drives-attempting-protect-evidence-soros-backed-secretary-state-tried-delete/